You'll learn how to remove unwanted elements from photos, make selections, save files for print or web, and much more. In no time, you'll be able to enhance your photos and build graphics in Photoshop! This 6-hour class will quickly get you up and running with the essentials. It's designed for people who use Photoshop lightly and have little time to spare.
If you want to learn Photoshop in greater depth, check out our 18-hour Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp. And if you're looking for portfolio-based classes, take a look at the Graphic Design Bootcamp or our Graphic Design Certificate Program.
What You Will Learn
- Retouch photos with confidence
- Enhance your images by adjusting color, brightness, and contrast
- Design graphics for social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and more
- Create designs that blend photos, text, and graphics, such as logos
- Straighten and crop photos
- Use selections to work with a specific part of an image
- Save your images in the right file formats for web or print
Course Outline
Section 1
Getting Started
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Zooming
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Scrolling
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Getting around
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Tools
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Copying & pasting
Photo Retouching
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Spot Healing Brush
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Content-Aware Fill
Cropping Photos
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Cropping Photos
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Straightening Photos
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Straightening a Layer
Creating Graphics: Combining Photos, Text, & Graphics
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Adding Type
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Smart Objects
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Importing Vector Graphics (Such as Logos)
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Type Anti-Aliasing
Section 2
Replacing Backgrounds
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Select Subject
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Select and Mask
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Image compositing
Blend Modes & Opacity
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Blend Modes
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Opacity
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Placing & Editing Smart Objects
Color Correction Using Color Balance
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Creating adjustment layers for color correction
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Adjusting color balance
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Adjusting brightness/contrast
Color Correction Using Curves
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Color correction with a Curves adjustment layer
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Adjusting brightness and contrast with Curves
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Setting white, black, & mid points
Preparing Digital Photos for Print
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Viewing/setting image size
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Resampling pros & cons
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Saving as PSD
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Saving as TIFF
Exporting Files for Web/Digital
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Resizing images for the web/digital
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Reducing image size with resampling
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Exporting an optimized JPEG
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Exporting a transparent PNG
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
